Sentence examples for major thinkers from inspiring English sources

In philosophy, Mead was one of the major thinkers among the American Pragmatists.

This renaissance of the study of Hegel conditioned the thought of some of the major thinkers of France.

It is impossible to exaggerate the enormous enthusiasm that this assumption kindled in all of the major thinkers of the late 17th and 18th centuries, from Locke to Kant.

The teaching and writing, much of it dating to the 1930s, of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (Écrits [1966; Ecrits: A Selection]) influenced many major thinkers in the 1960s and '70s.

Mr. Condo seems to be one of those peculiar souls who regard Ginsberg, Burroughs and Kerouac not just as colorful characters or interesting writers but also as major thinkers.

The sources of the Declaration included the major thinkers of the French Enlightenment, such as Montesquieu, who had urged the separation of powers, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who wrote of general will the concept that the state represents the general will of the citizens.

George Kennan was a major thinker but a minor practitioner.

Although Socrates exerted a profound influence on Greek and Roman thought, not every major philosopher of antiquity regarded him as a moral exemplar or a major thinker.

It's perhaps the only case of a major thinker saying that things are actually in some ways simpler than they seem, and being right.

Zoe Williams (G2, 23 September) claims that taxation has "a curious void where its academics should be", and that Richard Murphy is "by a mile, the major thinker".

Despite arguing itself into a cul-de-sac, "The Anatomy of Racial Inequality" is an incisive, erudite book by a major thinker.